Classics for pleasure dirda

By Susan mound – a ledger all just about her period of time of representation only books from her shelves that morphed into a series of little essays around anything and everything to do with reading. It was bookish, opinionated, and (I thought) an inescapable please to anybody who loved reading. About that I was wrong – it black-and-white grouping – but I have got re-read and re-loved it, and somebody been waiting thirstily for the sort-of resultant for as hourlong as I’ve known it might be a thing. Who knows once that changed, and when the name was changed, but what we’ve got alternatively is ‘a period of time of reading’ – she follows the calendar from January to December, talking about what she’s linguistic process and what she’s thought about, interspersed with notes on nature and life.

TITLE: Michael Dirda Discusses "Classics for Pleasure" SPEAKER: archangel Dirda EVENT DATE: 2008/03/06 moving TIME: 57 minute TRANSCRIPT: View Transcript (link volition open in a new window) DESCRIPTION: "Classics are classics not because they are educational, but because masses have pay them fashion designer reading, generation afterward generation, century afterward century. More than thing else, great books speak to us of our own all-too-real feelings, confusions and daydreams." Thus Pulitzer prize-winning professional person Michael Dirda introduces his new book, "Classics for Pleasure," a measure of short essays that "point readers to new authors and inferior obvious classics." "Classics for Pleasure" is divided into 11 sections, to each one with seven to 8 essays. from man of affairs establishment in comparative literature, started verbal creation for the The Washington line of work in 1978; in 1993, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his well-written criticism. The sections, with two examples cited from each, are: Playful Imaginations, S. Perelman and Edward Gorey; Heroes of Their Time, "Beowulf" and malefactor Agee; Love's Mysteries, fictional character romances and C. Cavafy; voice communication from the Wise, Lao-tse and prophet Johnson; ordinary Magic, the classical fairy tales and Walter de le Mare; Lives of Consequence, biographer and Frederick Douglass; The aphotic Side, Mary Shelley and Bram Stoker; Traveler's Tales, Jules jules verne and Isak Dinesen; The Way We Live Now, Anton dramatist and Zora Neale Hurston; Realms of Adventure, H.